Bjorn, Tested mine. It does it too. Plays the "asterisk" sound from Windows. Have not had 2 sound cards long so never really paid attention to it. My theme plays a quiet "strum" that would hardly be heard over the RTTY and monitor I usually listen to at the same time. Don't contest with DX4WIN so never really noticed.
Dan KI6X -----Original Message----- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Björn Ekelund Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 12:41 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] MMTTY Hi List, Thank you for all the responses. I now know %X/%e are valid macro tokens used to switch on/off FSK transmission in the DX4Win GUI for MMTTY. However the "ding mystery" remains unsolved. I have made the following observations: The loudspeaker ding is associated with using the %X token (start FSK transmission) in a function key macro (e.g. F1). The %e (stop transmission) creates no ding. The actual sound made is called "Windows Background" and is also used e.g. when changing the Windows loudspeaker volume using the mouse in the system tray. I have confirmed the issue on three different installations; A HP Pavilion Desktop running Swedish Windows 10, an ASUS UL-30VT Laptop running Swedish Windows 7 and an HP Folio Laptop running English Windows 7. The ding sound comes through Windows' general audio channel, not the communications audio channel (which is used for e.g. the FSK audio from MMTTY). If you use an extra sound card (like I ended up doing) the ding will come through your loudspeakers and just annoy you. However, more severely, if you use the PC's built-in sound card for the FSK signal the ding will overlay with the FSK and distort the first few characters of ALL your transmissions. I have tried different settings in "keying setup" Alt-S with no effect. I have tried placing the MMTTY executable in the default place (c:\program files\mmtty instead of c:\ham\mmtty where it is installed by default) with no effect I have tried changing the settings on most things I find in the Preferences drop down with no effect. I have also played around with the standalone version of MMTTY and it shows no such behavior (it uses backslash "\" as a token to turn on and off transmission in function key macros.) Am I alone in seeing this? Björn SM7IUN 2016-06-30 19:07 GMT+02:00 Björn Ekelund <bj...@ekelund.nu>: > Hi all, > > I have two questions relating to the MMTTY Window: > > 1. Where is the complete list of %macros? I can't seem to find it > anywhere in the help file or on the web. E.g. the %X macro that starts > transmission or the %M macro that I don't know the meaning of. > > 2. Is there a way to avoid/disable the "ding" in the loudspeaker when > executing the %X macro, e.g. in a CQ macro? > > thanks in advance, > > Björn > SM7IUN ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
